{"podcast":{"title":"What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books","slug":"what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402","podcast_index_feed_id":6367402,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8","website_url":"https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/what-happened-next/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/show-cover.jpg","author":"Nathan Whitlock","episode_count":167,"summary":"In each episode of What Happened Next, author Nathan Whitlock interviews other authors about what happens when a new book isn’t new anymore, and it’s time to write another one. This podcast is presented in partnership with The Walrus.https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/what-happened-next/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:19:26.730524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402"},"episode":{"title":"Gabrielle Drolet","slug":"gabrielle-drolet","published_at":"2026-05-18T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402/gabrielle-drolet","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402","url":"https://shows.acast.com/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books/episodes/gabrielle-drolet","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/e/6a0762aca8fad4c1be368bcb/media.mp3","summary":"My guest on this episode is Gabrielle Drolet. Gabrielle is a journalist, essayist, and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Globe and Mail , New York Times, The Walrus, VICE, Teen Vogue , and more. Her essays on disability have been nominated for a Digital Publishing Award and won gold at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Her first book, Look Ma, No Hands: A Chronic Pain Memoir , was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2025, and was a finalist for a 2026 Lambda Literary Award. Journalist Sarah Hagi called the book “a remarkable debut from an incredible voice.” Gabrielle and I talk about some of the more ethically dubious gigs she has taken on as a freelance writer, about writing using voice-to-text software, and how that has changed her style, and about her worries that next book, which is not a memoir, might have less of a hook in comparison with her first. This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock , in partnership with The Walrus . Music: \"simple-hearted thing\" by  Alex Lukashevsky . Used with permission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"My guest on this episode is Gabrielle Drolet. Gabrielle is a journalist, essayist, and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Glob…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1824,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402/episodes/gabrielle-drolet/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402/gabrielle-drolet.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}